While it looks likeStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Limight have been financed from the change found in the coin box of my local 7-11’sStreet Fighter IIcabinet, it doesn’t look likeLost Planetwill be getting the same treatment.
In an interview for Capcom’s investor relation’sWeb site, the company’s Head of Character Content Business Toshihiro Tokumaru hints that the economic crisis won’t be affecting the film.
“Speaking ofLost Planet,” he says, “that project will cost somewhere between 150 and 200 million dollars to make. The producer on that project is Avid Arad, producer ofSpider-Man.”
To put things into perspective, Arad’sSpider-Man 3cost about $260 million to make;RoboCopis estimated to have cost only $13 million, and it’s the greatest film ever made.
Tokumaru suggests that the reason they’re able to be so ambitious is because they’re working with original IPs. This to me seems a bit backwards. Spending $260 million onSpider-Man 3makes sense because, well … it’s freakin’ Spider-Man. And as muchI enjoyedLost Planet, Wayne Holden certainly ain’t Peter Parker.
[ViaCHUD]
